My question was inspired by this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070331170357AAZGgEf
2007-03-31 13:25:26 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Noam, I thought this was well-known about the Bonobo: "Sexual activity happens within the immediate family as well as outside it, and often involves adults and children, even infants."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
2007-03-31 13:44:24 · update #1
Totally disagree! We are not animals because we have reasoning ability and that kind of thing is highly dangerous to developing human minds. (prepubescents)
2007-03-31 13:29:28 · answer #1 · answered by JackO07 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If we were simply animals, I guess it shouldn't screw us up so badly, should it?
Research shows that it is detrimental, though. Adults have no business having sex with children or adolescents. They shouldn't say explicit things to them or show them explicit materials. Any of that constitutes sexual abuse.
We don't seem to care about it as much as we should IMO based on sentencing, but it is traumatic to children. It changes them and we have no business participating in it, condoning it, failing to prevent it, and not being outraged when it happens.
2007-03-31 20:37:55 · answer #2 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a separate question, you know.
That they shouldn't does not prove that humans should therefore be monogamous (and follow all the dictates of some church, as I'm sure you would conclude).
Your argument is a logical fallacy, my dear; I did not argue that humans should do everything some other species does; only that we perhaps shouldn't be monogamous, because NO great ape is monogamous AND because the cultural expectation of monogamy causes all kinds of misery and goes against the instincts of any healthy adult human.
In fact, right there you have it; very few adult humans have a desire to have sex with children, and doing so doesn't generally benefit both parties; there's your answer.
2007-03-31 20:33:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. Opportunistic murder "is done in the animal kingdom" and done without punishment. If we are to emulate the animals,we might as well commit mass global suicide,leaving them the planet,since our existence would obviously serve no purpose.
2007-03-31 20:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by Bahira 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely not, and to all you women out there who are caught up in the modern craze of shaving all your pubic hair off to look like a little girl..Remember that most of us blokes are not child molesters and find it offensive and ugly....BB .. )O(
2007-03-31 20:42:28 · answer #5 · answered by Bunge 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not done so in the animal kingdom. In fact, the only species that preys so violently on its own children is humanity.
2007-03-31 20:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
No. We should not base our practices on what animals do.
The only ones who are legally allowed to have sex with prepubescents are priests.... but we should not base our practices on them either.
2007-03-31 20:30:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No it's sick! And the adults who think otherwise, are in serious need of help.
2007-03-31 20:34:19 · answer #8 · answered by Mary Lou 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Q HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR LINK!!!!!!! And adults should only have sex with adults not someone who cannot consent
2007-03-31 20:34:53 · answer #9 · answered by Max 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO WAY.They are sweet wee ones.They have no idea of the action.An it screws them up mentally.
2007-03-31 20:30:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋